Nah, it’s got nothing to do with intelligence. This was a primal reaction, he’s so instinctively racist that, at the mere sight of a black person, his first thought is “kill”

How does that change anything?

Directed by Alan Tis

compelling argument thanks

Geralt is actually pretty dang emotional/vulnerable in the books. As much as I love the games, CDPR did his character a huge disservice in their quest to make him a blank slate for players.

In the books, Witchers don’t really draw their swords like you’d expect from games and movies — mostly because they’re never really supposed to be in a situation where they’d need to. They’re not knights, and have no use for a weapon if they’re not on the clock. Their whole MO is meticulous preparation, like spending…

Yeah the way they’ve managed to gamify shopping doesn’t really sit right with me. I don’t really understand how people can be mad at lootboxes for preying on addictive behaviour but I don’t really hear a word about this.

One thing I noticed watching some TFT gameplay is that all the heroes look so... indistinct. They’re a lot smaller than the other Auto Chess games, and the silhouettes are so undefined that I can’t tell who’s supposed to be what at a glance.

I mean that’s just the reality of business. If other platforms have exclusives but you’re letting yours roam free, you are straight-up putting yourself at a disadvantage.

I can’t speak to Source 2 but back when I liked to mess around with it in CS:S and TF2, Hammer was an absolute bastard. So many janky workarounds to do the simplest things.

Iron Galaxy isn’t some huge AAA studio but they’ve been around -you might remember them from the bungled Arkham Knight PC port. There’s a really good discussion from an old Bombcast he was on about that, a lot of that is actually pretty relevant to the current discussions about crunch/management in games.

100%. The Christchurch video and hate speech are completely fucked (and probably illegal, so Twitch would have a leg to stand on with those), but lumping those in with porn and pirated content seems like a real corporate scumfuck move.

It really doesn’t have anything to do with chess beyond being tile-based, it’s really more of a turn-based strategy game. Kind of like a mix between Tetris 99, Fire Emblem, and a tower defense game.

And which games would those be, exactly?

Yep, mobile version is scheduled to drop next week with the Open Beta. Right now you have to be a Battlepass owner to play.

The mobile version has been out for a few weeks now, AFAIK there’s no actual involvement from Valve there.

Yeah, I feel that. They should introduce a third option (Perfectionist?) to just insta-fail a mission if anyone dies, would save some hassle at least.

I tried to play Awakening with permadeath enabled but I just couldn’t - I found myself rebooting my 3DS every time someone died, which was really just a more tedious way of playing on casual anyway.

Not just a direct sequel, but the last time we got two mainline Zelda games on the same platform at all was damn near 30 years ago.

Chiv had map/mode variety and some fun mods, but the gameplay was straight-up busted if you actually wanted to take it the slightest bit seriously. Some of the absolute worst netcode and hitboxes in recent memory.